Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2018

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Number 38 of 2018

EMPLOYMENT (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 2018

CONTENTS

PART 1

Preliminary and General

1. Short title and commencement

2. Interpretation

3. Repeals

PART 2

Amendment of Unfair Dismissals Act 1977

4. Amendment of Unfair Dismissals Act 1977

PART 3

Amendment of Act of 1994

5. Amendment of section 1 of Act of 1994

6. Amendment of section 2 of Act of 1994

7. Amendment of section 3 of Act of 1994

8. Amendment of section 4 of Act of 1994

9. Amendment of section 6 of Act of 1994

10. Offences

11. Protection against penalisation

12. Amendment of section 7 of Act of 1994

PART 4

Amendment of Act of 1997

13. Amendment of section 2 of Act of 1997

14. Amendment of section 5 of Act of 1997

15. Amendment of section 18 of Act of 1997

16. Banded hours

17. Protection against penalisation

PART 5

Amendment of National Minimum Wage Act 2000

18. Amendment of National Minimum Wage Act 2000

PART 6

Amendment of Workplace Relations Act 2015

19. Amendment of Workplace Relations Act 2015

Acts Referred to

Companies Act 2014 (No. 38)

Industrial Relations Acts 1946 to 2015

National Minimum Wage Act 2000 (No. 5)

National Minimum Wage Acts 2000 and 2015

Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 (No. 20)

Payment of Wages Act 1991 (No. 25)

Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act 1851 (14 & 15 Vict., c.93)

Protected Disclosures Act 2014 (No. 14)

Terms of Employment (Information) Act 1994 (No. 5)

Unfair Dismissals Act 1977 (No. 10)

Unfair Dismissals Acts 1977 to 2015

Workplace Relations Act 2015 (No. 16)

Number 38 of 2018

EMPLOYMENT (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 2018

An Act to provide for a requirement that employers provide employees with certain terms of employment within a certain period after commencing employment; to impose sanctions for certain offences; to further provide for a minimum payment due to employees in certain circumstances; to prohibit contracts specifying zero as the contract hours in certain circumstances and to provide for the introduction of banded contract hours; to further provide for prohibition of penalisation and for those purposes to amend the Terms of Employment (Information) Act 1994 and the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 ; to amend the Unfair Dismissals Act 1977 ; to amend the National Minimum Wage Act 2000 ; to amend the Workplace Relations Act 2015 ; and to provide for related matters.

[25th December , 2018]

Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: